Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword.

Twitter 100

Twitter Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 100

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. I still believe that.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. I still believe that.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaigns B2B Thought Leadership Media 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

B2B: Business Media. Lead Generation. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. 32 percent use social media as an outbound marketing channel for demand generation.

B to B 40

B to B Paid Content Social Media CMS Development 40

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Work Management Marketing Management 120